Tag Archives: Geonames

Solr and Geonames

Solr is the popular, blazing fast open source enterprise search platform from the Apache Lucene project. Its major features include powerful full-text search, hit highlighting, faceted search, dynamic clustering, database integration, and rich document (e.g., Word, PDF) handling. Solr is highly scalable, providing distributed search and index replication, and it powers the search and navigation features of many of the world’s largest internet sites. Continue reading

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GeoNames and GeoRSS

I don’t know how many of you are aware of this, but GeoNames.org has a pretty killer way of geocoding your RSS feed! This is particularly useful for converting your RSS feed to GeoRSS to be used in other products.
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